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Running Windows with that amount of free space is likely to cause problems.
The implication is that your Windows partition is only around 30GB.
This is simply not big enough in realistic scenarios unless you are prepared to spend days optimising the system to your usage - and even then it's going to be very tight once you start installing software as it isn't possible to avoid adding something to the partition with every install.

You need to either increase the size of the Windows partition, or get a new hard drive.

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My windows partition is 116 gb.
My space was tight but after updates it has shrunken.
I freed up 15gb free space a few days earlier. I used an external drive and off loaded some movies.
But the space was sucked up when I installed sqlserver and then updates used some more.

Trying to do more updates, and I see it has dropped from 8gb free to 6 gb free.
Is there a way to flush out whatever is sucking up space?
My windows dir size is 26gb

My Win 7 OS's use less than 50 GB for the [C] Drive.
I have the OS and installed programs on the [C] drive, OS installed apx. 6 years ago.

I store user data (movies,music,docs,pics,etc.) on a different partition/HD.
For me, user data always ends up hundreds of GB's, or TB's.
I have a desktop, so i can add sata drives as needed.
If you have a laptop with 1 bay, that's a very different scenario.

I need to go through the drive and see what files are taking up space.
Is there a program that can look through your drive and graphically show
what files are huge etc... in some kind of descending list?
Also MSSQL server when I was installing, I had continual failures due to Avast blocking writes for the setup, so I have at least 3 failed instances which may have several gb wasted space there for every failed instance.

PC finished the 200 plus updates and sucked up 3-4 gb of free space

How to shift all free space on hard disk to get contigous free space?My NTFS non-system partition is now almost well defragmented. However this applies only to small and medium sized files.
There are still approx 40 big files (> 1 GB) which cannot be defragmented because there is no free single (!) space slot where they fit in.
So I need a way to shift all...

Performance & Maintenance

Help me not to get sucked in to the internet on my first year in uni!Hello everyone!
I'm about to start my first year in university, music composition.
- I have a terrible tendency to get sucked into that information black hole called the internet.
- My self-discipline isn't very great in that regard, so "grow up some discipline!" doesn't help. Building this...

Network & Sharing

Why did I suddenly go from 2GB free space to 30GB free space??Hi, for months my C: (120 SSD) had only 2GB left of free space. So I finally purchased a 250GB SSD to replace it with. I received the drive last week and the box has been sitting on my desk. This morning I noticed that all of a sudden my C: drive is no longer in the red... I now have 30GB of free...

General Discussion

How do I delete the free space to make it unallocated spaceI know that the above thread title has already been addressed in the past but none of them have solved my problem till now.
I have already read following threads-
https://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/109301-can-t-delete-free-space-partition.html...

Performance & Maintenance

I finished Dead Space 3 but the games thinks otherwiseI just plated Dead Space 3 to the very end, even let the credits run and got the "Ellie, Ellie..." audio bit at the end. I then turned the game off, installed an SSD for a boot disk and went back into the game to see if it would load faster. The saved slot said I only finished 78% of the game. ...

Gaming

HDD free space lost in Space....Hi
My laptop has 2x 7,200RMP ~320 GB hardrives. Previously I was using Vista and all partitions were devided equally (~150 GB) . After I've installed Win7 on C, part. D (which also has recovery files) suddenly became 13 GB,whilst other ones stayed the same.
So my question is where did the...